Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Metastases of thyroid carcinoma to the choroid and/or orbit are rare and usually occur at an advanced stage of the disease. The principal symptoms are decreased or blurred vision and/or persistent eye pain but they can be totally asymptomatic. They are diagnosed by ultrasound ocular CT and/or MRI scanning. The diagnosis is certain if they fix radioactive iodine. Their prognosis is very bad. Enucleation is the treatment of choice in cases of visual impairment. We ...

Introduction: Adrenal metastases due to thyroid cancers deemed to very rare as adrenal glands are not a common site of metastases from thyroid cancer. When the phenomenon occurs the prognosis is very poor as adrenal metastases usually do not fix radioactive iodine. Our aim is to report three cases.Case reports: No. 1: a woman aged 57 harbouring anaplastic thyroid cancer classified T4, N1, M0, consulted for back pain, severe fatigue and skin pigmentation....